Sublime

had acquired what, to my mind, is the most valuable success a writer can have—a faithful following, a reliable group of readers who looked forward to every new book and bought it, who trusted me, and whose trust I must not disappoint. —Stefan Zweig

Laura also thought that the law had done a great deal to spoil Henry. It had changed his natural sturdy stupidity into a browbeating indifference to other people’s point of view. He seemed to consider himself briefed by his Creator to turn into ridicule the opinions of those who disagreed with him, and to attribute dishonesty, idiocy, or a base

peerless

“In this world, there is no absolute good, no absolute evil,” the man said. “Good and evil are not fixed, stable entities but are continually trading places.

Le trait le plus frappant de sa personnalité d’artiste est la passion de connaître, la curiosité sans relâche et jamais apaisée, ce démon de voir et de savoir et de vivre toutes les vies, qui a fait de lui un fliegende Holländer, un pèlerin, passionné et toujours en voyage, parcourant tous les champs de la civilisation, observant et notant,